Ragini Devi @ Ragni @ Ragini Raj v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.52556 of 2025 Arising out of PS. Case No.-117 Year-2025 Thana- CHAND District- Kaimur (Bhabua) ====================================================== 1.
Ragini Devi @ Ragni @ Ragini Raj W/o Ravi Sahay R/o Village- Chand, P.S.- Chand, District- Kaimur 2.
Ravi Sahay S/o Ram Sahay Ram @ Ram Sahay R/o Village- Chand, P.S.- Chand, District- Kaimur ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Rakesh Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s:
Mr. Umanath Mishra, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SOURENDRA PANDEY ORAL ORDER 12-08-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the state.
2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case instituted for the offences under Sections 80 and 3(5) of BNS. Petitioner No. 1 has no criminal antecedent and Petitioner No. 2 has one criminal antecedent, i.e., Bhabhua Mohania P.S. Case No. 7 of 2022 instituted under Sections 376 and 420 IPC.
3. As per the prosecution case, the informant's niece namely Ravina Kumari was married to one Chandra Sahay on 11.06.2025. It is further alleged that the informant received a call that his niece is seriously ill and her treatment is going on at S.P. Surgical Hospital, Chandauli and when the informant
2/4 reached there he was subsequently informed that she has been referred to Maxwell Hospital, Varanasi and on the next date at about 6 P.M. the Doctor and the mother-in-law of his niece informed that she is dead. It was further alleged that the accused persons were demanding Rs. 20,00,000/- as dowry and on account of non-fulfilment of the same they were torturing her and subsequently they killed his niece..
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are innocent and have falsely been implicated in this case. It is further submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that Petitioner No. 1 is sister-in-law (Gotani) and Petitioner No. 2 is brother-in-law (Bhaishur) of the deceased. It is also submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that there is no specific allegation against them and from the perusal of the FIR it would appear that the niece of the informant was undergoing treatment where she subsequently died.
5. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for bail of the petitioner.
6. Considering the aforesaid submissions of learned counsel, the petitioner, above named, is directed to be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of four weeks from today, on fur-
3/4 nishing bail-bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kaimur at Bhabhua in connection with Chand P.S. Case No. 117 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure read with corresponding Section 482(2) of BNSS as well as subject to the following conditions:- (i) One of the bailors will be a close relative of the petitioners.
(ii) The petitioners will remain present on each and every date fixed by the Court below, if so required by the learned Trial Court.
(iii) In case of absence on two consecutive dates or in violation of the terms of the bail, the bail bond of the petitioners will be liable to be canceled by the Court concerned. (iv) And further condition that the court below shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner as above mentioned case and in case at any stage it is found that the petitioners have concealed their criminal antecedents, the
4/4 court below shall take step for cancellation of bail bond of the petitioners. However, the acceptance of bail bonds in terms of the abovementioned order shall not be delayed for purpose of the same or in the name of verification.
7. It is made clear that the observations, if any, made in this order, shall be of no bearing during the trial. (Sourendra Pandey, J) Vikash/- U T